L'optique

Engraving, aftere a painting by Allou, shows a woman constructing an anomorphic drawing.

0023

Anamorphosis Perspective Box

Anonymous

Letterpress and woodcut

Italy

1743

9 3/4" x 14 1/8"

Page from Vignola, Le dve Regole della Prospettiva Practica(B100), ed. Egnazio Danti. Published by Camerale in Rome. First published in 1611.

0022

Anonymous

Engraving

France

1753

9" x 7 1/4"

A page from Alexandre Saverien's Dictionnaire Universel De Mathematique et De Physique(B187).

1380

Perspective

Gussieo

Continental

c. 1800

15 1/2" x 10"

Plate II from a folio showing the drawing of an anamorphic image of a woman and a Dioptric paradox viewer.

4281

Anamorphosis

Engraving

Great Britain

c. 1812

10 1/2" x 8"

4664

D. Sluyter

Hand colored wood engraving

The Netherlands

1834

13 1/4" x 11 1/4"

A fold out page from the book De Mimetsbron. Tijdschrift Voor Jongekingen(B544) illustrating a picture of a man on a grid in preparation for making an anamorphic image, the anamorphic image and finally the image restored to normal when seen in a mirror.

4107

Lithograph

Netherlands

c. 1870

5 3/4" x 8"

A page from the book "De Spring in T Veld" (B550) showing how to construct an anamorphoses and a viewer to look at an optical anamorphic image.

4151

A Caligraphic Mystery

Anonymous

Wood engraving

Great Britain

c. 1880

2 1/2" x 4"

An advertising card for Stereoscopic Co. Two hidden texts only emerge when the card is leaned and viewed as an optical anamorphoses.

4146

Casse-Tete Chinois

Anonymous

Line block

France

c. 1890

5 1/2" x 11"

When the print is tilted the following curious sentence can be seen: Nous Sommes Flambes (We burn).